# SUN COMPANY, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `18851`
- **Case Number:** 03-2000-0109
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $6K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SUN COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE COMPLAINT ALLEGE THAT AT 9:00AM ON DECEMBER 19, 1997, A  RELEASE OF CHLORINE, WHICH IS A CERCLA HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE,  GREATER THAN ITS REPORTABLE QUANTITY OF TEN POUNDS, OCCURRED FROM SUN'S MARCUS HOOK FACILITY, MARCUS HOOK PENNSYLVANIA.   THE FACILITY IF LOCATED BOTH THE COMMONWEALTH OF             PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF DELAWARE.  THE RELEASE         RESULTED FROM THE ERRONEOUS OFFLOADING OF SODIUM             HYPOCHLORITE INTO A TANK OF ZINC SULFATE, THE SUBSEQUENT     RESULT BEING THE CREATION AND RELEASE OF CHLORINE GAS INTO   THE ATMOSPHERE.  THE NRC WAS NOT INFORMED OF THE RELEASE     UNTIL APPROXIMATELY 71/2 HOURS AFTER SUN HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT  A RELEASE EXCEEDING THE RQ OCCURRED, IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 103 OF CERCLA.  NEITHER THE STATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE         COMMISSION'S NOR THE LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITEE'S OF  POTENTIALLY AFFECTED STATES AND LOCALITIES WERE NOTIFIED     IMMEDIATELY OF THE RELEASE NOR PROVIDED WRITTEN FOLLOW UP AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE CONCERNING THE RELEASE AS REQUIRED BY    THE PERTINENT PROVISION OF SECTION 304 OF EPCRA.

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